After a 9-euro ticket: First transport association offers a ticket for zero euros
Created: 07/09/2022 08:19
By: Jan-Frederik Wendt
Hanover: GVH plans 0-euro ticket (symbol photo).
© Julian Stratenschulte/dpa
The 9-euro ticket is very popular.
The first transport association is now planning the so-called 0-euro ticket.
Hanover – Travelers in Germany have been able to use the 9-euro ticket since June.
Politicians have been discussing a possible follow-up offer for consumers for a long time.
Among other things, the 1-euro ticket is under discussion.
Now the first transport association wants to offer a ticket for zero euros.
The Verkehrsverbund Großraum-Verkehr Hannover (GVH) is planning a free ticket from January.
Passengers should be able to travel by bus and train for free, reports the
Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ).
The GVH wants to expand its offer in Hanover with a job ticket 100.
Hanover: Employers bear part of the costs for the 0-euro ticket
With the job ticket - the so-called 0-euro ticket - the passenger's employer pays a monthly subsidy of between 45 and 60 percent.
The remaining costs are covered by the transport company GVH.
The employee does not have to pay a cent for his monthly ticket.
In the lower ticket levels (Jobticket 5, Jobticket 25 and Jobticket 50) the travelers would have to bear the costs themselves.
However, they would get a percentage discount.
For example, buyers of the Jobticket 50 would have a price advantage of 50 percent because the employer covers half of the costs.
0-euro ticket in Hanover: GVH wants to create transparency
With the 0-euro ticket, the transport association wants to simplify the tariff system for the job ticket and make the offers more transparent, said a GVH spokesman for
HAZ
.
Nationwide, the transport associations offer a variety of different discounted tickets for employees who are dependent on the bus and train to get to work.
The 0-euro ticket in Hanover would be the first offer in Germany where customers in a job ticket offer do not have to contribute anything to the monthly costs.
Since the introduction of the 9-euro ticket, the debate about lower prices in local public transport has increased in many regions of Germany.
Several transport associations have since announced that they are working on cheaper tickets.
(Jan Wendt)